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Joseph Swan
Sir Joseph Swan was a physicist and chemist born in Sunderland, England who is credited with producing the first electric light bulb.

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
Swan produced an early electric light bulb and invented the dry photographic plate, an important improvement in photography and a step in the development of modern photographic film.

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